XAML Developer Reference

Chapter 4. Markup Extensions and Other Features

In this chapter:

• Markup Extensions

• Built-In XAML Markup Extensions

• XAML Markup Extensions Used in WPF and Silverlight

• Escape Sequences

• Custom Markup Extensions

• Type Converters versus Markup Extensions

• XAML Services

• Security in XAML

• Summary

You’ll see a great deal more about data binding in Chapter 8, including several methods and approaches for binding controls to data, but for now, two key extensions crucial to the implementation of data binding are the StaticResource and Binding extensions. These extensions, also called markup extensions, are placeholders to resolve a property at runtime. Without the use of the StaticResource and Binding markup extensions, the process of binding would be very cumbersome ...